It is not by raising Africa to the level of the West that we African can answer the world’s Invitation. It is not by endowing Africa with every material good that we shall grow.
It is not by integrating Africa into the world of commerce that we shall hand over to the world what Destiny asks of us.
Certainly Africa must be modernized and, as quickly as possible, Africa must be enriched.
We must work for that with all our strength, not with any ambition to equal or compete with the west, but so that these goods maybe a cloak to cover us as we go forward to build up a renewed humanism.
This cloak must cover our own hearts.
Our conception of ubuntu (Human qualities)
Our love for ubuvyeyi (parental dignity)
Our practice of ubuntungare (nobility of origin)
Our sense of ubutungane (Integrity)
The respect of Imana (God)- our father’s legacy to us.
Let us throw ourselves into such a commitment.
There is not time to lose.
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